"John Simmons Barth" is an American novelist and short-story writer, known for the postmodern literature/postmodernist and metafictional quality of his work.

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It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire him.

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations.

There's no question we can bring some expertise, ... I'm sure they have some as well. But we're recognized as the benchmark in the industry on the automotive side.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history.

Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.